A simple and quick salad with tortellini and spinach. Pasta salads are filling and there is a reason why they are very popular. Perfect for a light summer dinner, barbecue or party. They are perfect for New Year’s Eve or dinner with friends. Depending on the type of filling in tortellini, the dish can be vegetarian or meat. A very simple and original recipe that combines sweet, salty and sour flavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Instead of balsamic vinegar, you can add lemon juice or wine vinegar to the vinaigrette.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can add cheese to the salad, e.g. gorgonzola.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can use various types of melon, e.g. cantaloupe, galia, matisse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can replace the melon with, for example, a pear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can use fresh or dried tortellini. Fresh tortellini takes about 1 minute to cook and dried ones about 14 minutes. Remember that dried tortellini increases in weight and volume as they are cooking, so when using dried tortellini I would use half as much as in the recipe (approx. 125 g).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
You can use pasta with any filling, I used tortellini with prosciutto and cheese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Can tortellini salad be made the day before?<\/strong> It is best to make pasta salad immediately before serving. It is very quick to prepare, so it shouldn’t be a problem. When the salad sits for a long time, the spinach shrinks and becomes soggy, which makes the salad not look good on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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